Temporary assistant commissioner Matt Twist has denied political pressure led to the arrest of dozens of anti-monarchy protesters during the coronation of King Charles III.
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‘We police the laws as they are set without fear or favour,’ he told MPs on the home affairs committee. The chief executive of Republic, Graham Smith, said he was very concerned by Twist's statements, and that police had ‘significantly disrupted and diminished’ the group's protests.

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